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Synthesis rules for Petri nets, and how they lead to new results

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CONCUR '90 Theories of Concurrency: Unification and Extension (CONCUR 1990)

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Three kits of rules for top-down synthesis of Petri nets are introduced. The properties and expressive power of the kits are compared. They are then used to characterise the class of structurally live Free Choice nets by means of the rank of the incidence matrix.

This work was partially supported by the DEMON Esprit Basic Research Action 3148

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Esparza, J. (1990). Synthesis rules for Petri nets, and how they lead to new results. In: Baeten, J.C.M., Klop, J.W. (eds) CONCUR '90 Theories of Concurrency: Unification and Extension. CONCUR 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0039060

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